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Sundance Announces Teens Gone Wild-Centric Line-Up
9:12AM Richard Rushfield | The Sundance Film Festival announced the complete line-up for its 2010 festival and the most visible trend is teens run amok. More »
Music
1:11PM Jess McGuire | As far as excuses to cancel a festival go, I think the reason behind Gold Coast City Council scrapping the Secret Session “three day techno rave” would have to be the best I’ve ever heard. More »
Techno Festival (Possibly) Cancelled Due To ‘Prisoner Issues’
1:11PM Jess McGuire | As far as excuses to cancel a festival go, I think the reason behind Gold Coast City Council scrapping the Secret Session “three day techno rave” would have to be the best I’ve ever heard. More »
Big Screen
Clooney Juggernaut To Give Toronto Festival The Vapors
3:49AM Richard Rushfield | In all the shattered, diminished world of people who still care about grown-up, prestigey, high-dramatical filmmaking there is one thing that matters, and that thing is George Clooney. More »
Music
3:45PM Jess McGuire | Now doesn’t this sound like a pleasant bloody day, eh?
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Attention Victorians! Here Is A Music Festival You May Like To Attend
3:45PM Jess McGuire | Now doesn’t this sound like a pleasant bloody day, eh?
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7:20AM STV | Mountain Men: The Sundance Film Festival broke out its non-competition selections for 2009 this morning, a starrier, funkier twist on yesterday’s slate of barbershop docs and Pierce Brosnan weepies. At the top is Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor’s gay prison romance I Love You Philip Morris, which we’ve been anticipating since first spying Carrey’s frolicsome South Beach sojourn. Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle will be around for the cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest, while Billy Bob Thornton is bringing two films — the Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers (also with Winona Ryder and Mickey Rourke — stay off the slopes, guys!) and the crap-salesman comedy Manure. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Spacey, Zooey Deschanel and Kristen Stewart bring up the rear; here’s hoping Winona leaves them their.gift bags. [SFF] More »
Trade Roundup: Putting A Sleepy Sundance To Bed
7:17AM Mark | · As a disappointing™ Sundance limps towards the finish line, buyers are proving immune to the charms of Big Name Stars like Robert DeNiro and Tom Hanks, whose films (What Just Happened and The Great Buck Howard) have “held all of the appeal of three-day-old fish.” [Variety] Sundance? More like Stunned‘dance, quips the Reporter as the sound of a rimshot slowly fades into the eerie quiet of Park City’s Main Street. Are we right, ladies? [THR] · Universal signs Atonement’s Joe Wright, red-hot from seven Oscar nominations (though not one for directing; thanks, Jason Reitman!) to a two-picture deal. [Variety] [After the jump: Marvel and the WGA make nice on an interim basis; Disney tries to squeeze even more money out of the Toy Story franchise.] More »
Has Sundance “Gone Hollywood”?
9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Of course it has! But for those clinging to the belief that Park City is anything other than a weeklong gifting suite that screens independent films to kill time in between agency parties, and who are looking for a fresh excuse to get outraged about the festival’s commercialism, have a look at their shiny new online store–where people can–gasp!–buy things bearing the Sundance brand: “‘They can’t really claim to be ‘art house’ if they’re basically operating a Disney Store online,’ said one top film critic who asked to remain anonymous, fearing reprisals.’” [Page Six] More »
Trade Roundup: Rupert Murdoch Not Going To Let The Strike Ruin His Xmas Party Plans
7:30AM Defamer Hollywood | · Tom Cruise’s career as a studio mogul is off to an inauspicious start, as poor box office results for Lions for Lambs suggest he hasn’t quite cultivated the hitmaking instincts MGM believed he had when they handed him United Artists. Next up: Tom tries to kill Hitler! [Variety] · Cameron Diaz’s Christmas wish is granted as Shrek the Halls puts up “socko” (translation: huge) Nielsens Wednesday night, ensuring that future generations of children will be spending the holidays with their favourite Santa-ogre. [Variety] More »
Alan Ball Drama Gets Early Support For Feel-Awful Film Of 2007
5:00AM Defamer Hollywood | Faster than you can say “Dakota Fanning Rape Project,” the Toronto Film Festival screenings of Alan Ball’s Nothing is Private should produce a level of buzz-building, pre-acquisition outrage unseen since the first reports that universally beloved/feared child star Fanning’s cinematic virtue would be stolen at the 2006 edition of Sundance. Outraged Fox 411 gossip columnist Roger Friedman previews his early candidate for Feel-Awful Movie of 2007, in which Aaron Eckhart, perhaps overcompensating for the guilt of cashing his No Reservations paycheck, returns to the darker In the Company of Men/Your Friends & Neighbours material of his early career: The movie – so odious that many people have simply walked out during the screenings – shows actor Aaron Eckhart having sex with a 13-year-old girl played by a now 19-year-old actress, Summer Bishil. The actress only turned 19 recently, however, which means that she was just on the cusp of 18 when she made the movie last year. [...] More »
